TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Ground tests of the European service module for NASA’s Orion capsule progress successfully. NASA prepares to honor Apollo 1 astronauts, Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee, victims of a launch pad fire fifty years ago Friday. Human Deep...
HI-SEAS IS SIMULATING MARS ON HAWAII
How will we help our future astronauts prepare for the rigors and tribulations of exploring Mars? By starting with an eight-month stay in a well-isolated dome atop Mauna Loa on in Hawaii. Here, a NASA analog mission will study human behavior and performance in the...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Trump administration assigns first political appointees to NASA. Human Deep Space Exploration Renewed hope of a mission to Mars The Hill (1/21): An assessment of space policy setting legislation in the U.S. House and Senate underscores...
GEMINI-2 LAUNCHED 52 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
52 years ago yesterday, a mission was launched that played a critical part in paving the way for the Apollo program that would follow. NASA’s suborbital Gemini-2 mission launched on July 19, 1965 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… A future human Mars mission could offer President-elect Trump one means of unifying the nation, according to a Washington pre-inaugural assessment. Human Deep Space Exploration Will Trump echo JFK’s moonshot and vow to send...
SLS HIGHLIGHTS FOR DECEMBER
December was a busy month for America’s new rocket that will take humans into deep space. NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, made massive headway toward its first launch. SLS will head off toward deep space for the first time in 2018. On its inaugural flight, the...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Explore Mars outlines reasons for red planet exploration. In Hawaii, six scientist/volunteers set out on an eight month Mars mission simulation. Human Deep Space Exploration Six essential reasons why we need to send humans to Mars...
Mud cracks on Mars?
NASA’s Curiosity rover recently examined slabs of rock that, if interpreted correctly, would be the first mud cracks confirmed by the mission. This would confirm that some drying occurred after wetter conditions in the ancient era during which these sediments were...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Robert Lightfoot, NASA’s associate administrator, will lead NASA temporarily as President-elect Trump takes office on Friday. Lightfoot offered an optimistic outlook for the agency before a space business gathering on Tuesday....Space Talk
🚀 20 de octubre, 4:41 a.m.: Japón lanza una sonda para aterrizar en una luna de Marte y traer un trozo a casa.
MMX apunta a Fobos: 27 km de ancho, da 3 vueltas a Marte al día. Recogerá 10 g y volverá en 2031.
JAXA cree que el 0,1% podría ser Marte.
#MMX #Fobos #JAXA #CoheteH3
☀️ STUNNING: This incredible timelapse of the Sun was created from 40,000 photos captured over just 3 hours using a solar telescope.
The result is a mesmerizing look at our star in motion — revealing constantly changing solar activity in breathtaking detail.
#Sun #Space
How long would it take to reach each planet in our Solar System from Earth? 🚀
8 Months to Venus, 1.4 Years to Mars, but a whopping 27.6 Years to Neptune and 37 Years to Pluto! 🤯
Space is unbelievably vast. 🌌 #Space #Astronomy #Universe
The Universe is full of invisible radiation …but this is the tiny part we can actually see. 👁️🌌
Visible light is only a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum, yet it reveals stars, galaxies, nebulae, and planets directly to our eyes and telescopes.
#space #nasa #light
